What spell do you use the most?

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I love just using chain contingency, packed with MM's. then i sleep. then i put in a spell trigger packed with MM's, then i sleep again. spell sequencer, with MM's, again. then i sleep and do the same with minor spell sequencer. i went to firkrages (SPL?) and had imoen with chain contingency packed with lower magice resistance.then all the missiles went out and that took him down to near death and aerie killed him with one hit from the maulers arm.

 

THE most-used spell is breach. Not necessarily the best, just the most used. I also find myself using True Sight every second battle or so - it's amazing how many of those critters use Shadow Door. The best damage-dealer is Abi Dalzim's, though, and the best disabling spell is Greater Malison. My new favorite tactic is Web + Cloudkill.

[This message has been edited by Tiamat (edited August 22, 2001).]

 

Magic Missle and Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting are great spells. Greater Malison is a must have, and you can follow it up with Chromatic Orb to petrify or istantly kill someone.

I'm suprised that it seems that no one ever uses Emotion: Hopelessness, it's like hold, but it applies for everyone and an unlimited amount of enemies. I just use it and half my enemies are just lying down there!

I also like Cloudkill for Umber Hulk killing and other enemies.

 

Thanks Gibbon! I'm glad someone got my joke!

 

My cleric cast these spells every day:
- Protection from Evil 10' Radius
- Chaotic Commands (on the "tanks")

 

I would love to use prismic spray more often but my buddies have a nasty habit of getting in the way....

 

greater malison + chromatic orbs = cheap petrification

 

Favourite: Mordekain's sword, great against Illithid, and the green stone amulets you get when they die are jus great (automatic semi-mindshield)

Most cast:Magic Missile at low levels (as far as that's posiblle) and Horrid Wilting

 

It seems that most people use MM when at the start of the game it's pretty maxed out
I use Chromatic Orb almost exclusively for a first level spell and save a spot or two for MM
Chromatic Orb at most levels in BGII kills a downed troll easily and you can carry around many of them while MM you can't
They only do magic damage while CO deals acid and fire damage without a save at different levels

 

IS this a poll?
The post was "What SPELL do You use the most"
Amazing that we have 149 spells from 48 person. I wote for a recount... Let's take it to america. they know how to count votes.

Top Ten

Magic Missile............23
Abi-Dalzim's horrid wilting..8
Chromatic Orb................8
Stoneskin....................7
Breach.......................7
Greater Malison..............7
Fireball.....................6
Web..........................5
Haste........................4
Mirror Image.................4


The average bunch

Cloudkill....................3
Melf's acid arrow............3
Mordenkainen's sword.........3
spider spawn.................3
Pierce Magic.................3
Monster summoning............2
Melf's minute meteor.........2
Chant........................2
Protection from evil.........2
Lower resistance.............2
Gate.........................2
The cream and butter

Wywern Call
bless
etheral sword (why not)
flesh to stone
Call apon holy might (free translation from Garathorn )
Insect swarm
Barkskin
Holy smite
Grease
Spirit Shield
Remove Magic
Death Spell
Dispel Magic
Defensive Harmony
Resist fear
Remove fear
Hold Person
Horror
Vampiric Touch
Heal
Silence
Invisibility
Sunfire
Summon Nishruu (remember the spelling)
Spell Sequencer
Holy armor
Entangle
Stinking cloud
Ice storm
Finger of death
Power word stun
Invisible Stalker
Animate dead
Khelben's rewarding whip
Chain Contingency
Spell trigger
Minor spell sequencer
True sight
Emotion
Protection from evil 10'radius
Chaotic Commands
Prismatic Spray


Special price goes to Llandon's "infrasion" Why? see post "two" in this old thread. http://www.sorcerers.net/ubb/Forum2/HTML/002625.html
Thumbs up Llandon

SOME STATISTICS
True sight only mentioned once. Guess invisibility isn't that big a deal anyway

122 spells from 48 persons makes the avererage spells per person 3,10

Magic missile has 14,75% of the votes

Every 2,7 person has Magic missile as his favorite spell. SIDENOTE! 2,7 in percent is the same as rolling twelve with two dice

Thinking of beeing a specialst Mage?
Here is the percentage of each school

EVOCATION...............37,4%
ABJURATION..............13,6%
CONJURATION.............12,9%
ALTERATION..............10,9%
NECROMANCY..............10,9%
ENCHANTMENT..............7,5%
ILLUSION.................3,4%
INVOCATION...............2,7%
DIVINATION...............1,4%

MORE INFO TO COME

MORE INFO:
2 9th level spell squeezed its way through
Gate and Chain Contingency. Interesting as it's only possible to attain 9th level spells in ToB

And this beauty of a Quote from Thorr concerning Mordenkainen's sword:

Fly baby, fly

[This message has been edited by Nobleman (edited August 29, 2001).]

 

So what hasn't been mentioned?

Improved Haste

I have Edwin exclusively memorise this in his level 6 slots ... when cast on my archer she has 9 attacks per round, this is pretty much a Greater Whirlwind that lasts for 20+ rounds.

 

Where are you from Nobleman that you would use "," for "." (i.e. 4,6% opposed to 4.6%) interesting.

Not much for Resist/Remove Fear. That's also intresting. I don't do the yellow run around thing all that often and I have these spells to thank for it.

[This message has been edited by Big B (edited August 29, 2001).]

 

Upppps. Danish (or even european) system. What can I say? blame the system. I once saw a movie where the bad guy was from America. And he kidnapped a rich guy in scandinavia somewhere. He released the kid when he got a check of 1.000.000 dollars. When he went to the bank he got one buck. Bummer heh heh.

 

That long exposition by Nobleman put a big smile on my face!

A comment must be made, I can't help it.
Prot from Evil 10' Radius. Are people not using clerics or have you just not seen the benefit of it? It lasts forever and the bonuses are just sooo good.
Is there a reason not to cast it at the start of every day? There are days when I don't use MM since my party cleans house with weapons only, but I always cast Prot from Evil 10' Radius at least once every day!

 

Yes Protection From Evil lasts 1 TURN per level. That's good. And if it makes you feeel better, I've been using it more lately

Now what get's me is this => Just what is evil? Does it follow alignment to determine what is considered evil, and what enemies you will gain the bonuses against? In this case does every creature have an alignment (on down to less intelligent creatures such as gibberlings and carrion crawlers)? Are they labeled "evil", do they have alignments?

 

Depends on the situation. Offensively, dispell and Magic Missile. Defensively, Stoneskin and Mirror Image. Bar none!

Hey NOBLEMAN, I live in America..Florida nonetheless and you DON"T want us counting the votes!

[This message has been edited by Thunderhammer (edited August 29, 2001).]

 

Cone of cold constantly do you know how few baddies have cold resist

 

Like disintegrate, cone of cold will totally destroy everything people carry except quest ones.